Terceira, Azores (Portugal)

Got another flight to Europe!  It turned out to be a pretty good day - we had some weather trouble early (near Delaware). Flying with Mike - an instructor of mine from about 15 years ago. I was given explicit orders to get him lots of flight time and night time. That means I'll have to ride in the back a good bit, but that's OK. We had a good turn in St. Johns and then a quick flight over to the Azores. [departing out of Newfoundland, we saw how tough it is to get a fully loaded DC-9 to altitude by the FIR boundary...] Stopped for the night on Terceira (Lajes Air Base).  We stayed the night at the Mid Atlantic Lodge and, even though they gave us a rental car, we didn't use it.  Instead, we ate dinner at the "Top of the Rock" before heading to bed.